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December 3, 2018
Ancient Egypt – Cheapskate Coffin Makers
Ancient Egypt – Cheapskate Coffin Makers About 3,000 years ago, a man named Nespawershefyt, working in the temple of Amun at Karnak (in modern Luxor), commissioned a set of coffins for himself, consisting of an outer coffin and an inner coffin – the smaller of the two to be placed in the larger, much like […]
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October 8, 2018
A Labour in Vain – The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte Augusta
Princess Charlotte Augusta Princess Charlotte August was in labour for more than two days before she died on 6th November 1817. Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796 – 1817) was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick. If she had lived Charlotte would have become Queen […]
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April 12, 2018
Cabinets of Curiosities
Cabinets of Curiosities Julia Herdman is fascinated by 18th-century cabinets of curiosities because they show a love of learning and the natural world. The 18th century saw a huge growth in the public interest in science and medicine. Cabinets of curiosities were a feature of many large houses because they were a way to show […]
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Cabinet of Curiosities
A Cabinets of Curiosities was a feature of many large houses in the 18th century. The collections reflected the particular interests of their curators and as a social device to establish and uphold rank in society. Sometimes called ‘wonder rooms’, they were collections of extraordinary objects which, like today’s museums, attempted to categorise and tell […]
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March 5, 2018
Dress to Impress Princess
In 2013 novelist Hilary Mantel wrote in an article in the London Review of Books. The subject of the article was giving a book to someone. The book she chose was published in 2006 and was by the cultural historian Caroline Weber. The book was called Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the […]
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Georgian Queens and Princesses
In this month’s posts, I will be looking at the lives and loves of some of Britain’s Georgian Queens and Princesses with the help of my guest contributors, American author and historian Geri Walter and the British genealogists and historians Joanne Major and Sarah Murden. Novelist Hilary Mantel wrote in an article in the London […]
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February 9, 2018
Nabobs of the North
Bankers and men of property are some of the richest men on the planet today. Their relationship with governments and the democratic process is a battle for power fought in a war of attrition between the bankers’ desire to operate freely and governments’ desire for responsibility through regulation. Richer than countries and certainly richer than […]
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January 21, 2018
Sarah Wilson – Queen Charlotte’s Fictitious Sister
I am delighted to welcome Geri Walton as my guest today. Geri is a history graduate and writer. Her first book, Marie Antoinette’s Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe, examines the relationship between Queen Marie Antoinette and Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. Based on a wide variety of historical sources […]
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Guest Post – Queen Charlotte’s Fictitious Sister
I am delighted to welcome Geri Walton as my guest today. Geri is a history graduate and writer. Her first book, Marie Antoinette’s Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe, examines the relationship between Queen Marie Antoinette and Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. Based on a wide variety of historical sources […]
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December 9, 2017
A Ghost Story for Christmas
It was November and the war in Europe had been over for more than year when I, Hester McKinnon a demobbed WAAF officer, took Rosamond Furnivall to live with her octogenarian great aunt in Cumbria. Like me, Rosamond had lost her parents. For Rosamond the calamity had occurred one day in 1944 when one of […]
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